Julio Lamas is an Argentine

Argentina

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 basketball

Basketball

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 coach. He currently manages both the Argentina national basketball team

Argentina national basketball team

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 and Obras Sanitarias

Obras Sanitarias

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Lamas has won 3 Liga Nacional de Básquet (Argentine League) championships: the 1996–97 season with Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors (basketball)

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, the 2004–05 with Ben Hur

Club Sportivo Ben Hur

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 and the 2007–08 with Libertad de Sunchales

Libertad de Sunchales

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. He also won the Liga Sudamericana

Liga Sudamericana

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 with Ben Hur in 2006. Lamas has also coached in Spain

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: Tau Cerámica

Saski Baskonia

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 (1999–2000), Lucentum Alicante

CB Lucentum Alicante

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 (with which he won the LEB and the Copa Príncipe

Copa Príncipe de Asturias de Baloncesto

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 in 2002) and Real Madrid

Real Madrid Baloncesto

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 (2003–2004).

Lamas coached the Argentina national basketball team

Argentina national basketball team

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 in the 1998 FIBA World Championship

1998 FIBA World Championship

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. He was also assistant coach to Sergio Hernández

Sergio Hernández (basketball)

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 in the 2008 Olympics

Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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(bronze medal). On December 16, 2010, he was officially announced as the Argentine national team head coach, replacing Sergio Hernández.